The Path Unending (A Cultivation Quest)

[x] You become more skilled at dealing with aspects of anam that you have yet to fully learn about. (Every point of anam that Kong Zhi cycles with an aspect he does not have integrated is multiplied by 1.2)

Helps us with our next major task, will help us in the future, if less so.

Vesvius said:

[] You become far more skilled at dealing with aspects of anam that you have incorporated into your very being. (Every point of anam that Kong Zhi cycles with an aspect he has integrated is multiplied by 1.2)

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Mhm, thinking of going with this, if we ever get future time techs with our current time wonder we'll be stuck to cycling once a week to advance it and I remember ct saying were far away from handling a bigger time wonder so going with this for the future is my thinking.

Could be swayed by other options though.

[x] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)


The rest of these come from further studying in Delving Heart archives?

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

for reference on this one. we are currently at knowledge 6, with this study action we are being raised to knowledge 7. With ONE more knowledge cultivation up our cycling checks for recovering anam, learning techs, and infusing charms ALL become drastically better. It even becomes easier to do shit like cycle anam into mughi.

This raises our average successes for one of our most used skills by a significant amount and all we need to do is just get ONE more cultivation knowledge up. Which we will get to see other cities on this trip, we have a library that should be able to do that easily at home. Hell, for how useful this upgrade is i'd even go as far as hiring a tutor to get that one skill up.

Imo its an easy choice.

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

Considering how many nat 1's we get on cycling, this is a godsend (Vesuviusend?)

[X] You learn to get a better sense of ambient anam and can draw it into your body. (Kong Zhi can cycle anam without a Natural Wonder at an 70% penalty. Requires Cycling 12 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

This solves So. Many. Goddamn. Issues.
Warhound Cry? Solved.
We find some random ass low-grade but useful Light/Knowledge technique? Solved.
We want to learn some rare-aspect anam from, say, the Kong family archives, but don't have a source for "Crafting" or "Spider"? Solved.

None are bad, but this one perminantly removes dependencies on exploration.
And, while we can't use it right away, it's potentially a source of Smoke/Steel/Sound/Beast (Time? eh, probably not time, but maybe, we did sense it was "everywhere" when we integrated the Garden) while we're on the road. Sure would be nice to be able to make progress on our techs on the road...

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

Jesus H. Christ. With how good all of these are I honestly want to dive head first into the Archives at the sect for a few actions so we can buff up our breathing technique. If we had gotten even one of these earlier it would have been such a boon.

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

foundationschads ww@

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

Mhm, on second thought this applies to anytime we cycle anything whether integrated or not so good enough for me.

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

Oh my god this is amazing

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

[X] You become far more skilled at dealing with aspects of anam that you have incorporated into your very being. (Every point of anam that Kong Zhi cycles with an aspect he has integrated is multiplied by 1.2)

Some numbers:
[] You become far more proficient at storing anam in your core, effectively increasing it's capacity. (Kong Zhi's anam threshold grows by 10%)
Anam Threshold goes from 21->23. No surprises there.

[] You become more skilled at dealing with aspects of anam that you have yet to fully learn about. (Every point of anam that Kong Zhi cycles with an aspect he does not have integrated is multiplied by 1.2)
A standard Cycling action currently gives 18 anam median (or 25 for charm infusion). This will make it count as 21 for the target technique (or 30 for charm infusion).
A good option if you want to play with lots of different aspects.

[] You become far more skilled at dealing with aspects of anam that you have incorporated into your very being. (Every point of anam that Kong Zhi cycles with an aspect he has integrated is multiplied by 1.2)
Same numbers obviously.
A standard Cycling action currently gives 18 anam median (or 25 for charm infusion). This will make it count as 21 for the target technique (or 30 for charm infusion).
A good option if you want to focus on core aspects.

NB: The two above options bypass the anam capacity of what we are cycling from. e.g. Cloud's Breath will contain effectively 8 anam. A Second of Eternity will be effectively 30.

[] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)
A standard Cycling action currently gives 18 anam median (or 25 for charm infusion). This will instead be 22 (or 31 for charm infusion).

[] You learn to get a better sense of ambient anam and can draw it into your body. (Kong Zhi can cycle anam without a Natural Wonder at an 70% penalty. Requires Cycling 12 to integrate into your breathing technique.)
A standard Cycling action currently gives 18 anam median (or 25 for charm infusion). This will instead be 5 (or 7 for charm infusion).
But we'd be able to get any basic or simple uncommon aspect with a bit of thought. (Delving Heart would be full of Earth, the Brightmaple Mountain would be easy for Wind, the Forest of Pearls would have Wood....)

[] You learn to better utilize trapped anam and can draw from it as you would like. (Kong Zhi can cycle anam from materials as if they were Natural Wonders. Each point drawn from the material weakens it a corresponding amount, and the material is destroyed when it's score reaches 0.)
Doesn't make cycling faster. Unsure if 'corresponding' actually means 1:1. I can't see that being used for anything except anam top-up 'pills'.

[X] You learn to better utilize trapped anam and can draw from it as you would like. (Kong Zhi can cycle anam from materials as if they were Natural Wonders. Each point drawn from the material weakens it a corresponding amount, and the material is destroyed when it's score reaches 0.)

So many materials we don't do shit with.

Shell Fragment, Snake Mothers Skin and the Deer Hide could let us bump up WC and SotP while travelling

Saw this and immediately wanted it.

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

HousePet said:

[] You learn to get a better sense of ambient anam and can draw it into your body. (Kong Zhi can cycle anam without a Natural Wonder at an 70% penalty. Requires Cycling 12 to integrate into your breathing technique.)
A standard Cycling action currently gives 18 anam median (or 25 for charm infusion). This will instead be 12 (or 17 for charm infusion).
But we'd be able to get any basic or simple uncommon aspect with a bit of thought. (Delving Heart would be full of Earth, the Brightmaple Mountain would be easy for Wind, the Forest of Pearls would have Wood....)

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i'm pretty sure you reduced our numbers there by 30% not 70%. Its a 70 % penalty. not cycling at 70% of normal capacity. Its a serious nerf

DangerKitty said:

i'm pretty sure you reduced our numbers there by 30% not 70%. Its a 70 % penalty. not cycling at 70% of normal capacity. Its a serious nerf

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Oh sorry. Will correct.

[X] You become far more proficient at storing anam in your core, effectively increasing it's capacity. (Kong Zhi's anam threshold grows by 10%)

Most likely not going to win because it's not the most shiny

But I just want to point out, Running out of anam is the issue we run into the most consistently and this buff will kick in right away which will help us for the duration of this trip.

Hope this makes everyone wanna hit up the library when we get home. Who knows what we're missing out on?

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

[X] You become more accustomed to the ebbs and flows of anam and can handle the unexpected with far greater ease. (Natural 1s no longer subtract successes from cycling checks. Requires Knowledge (Cultivation) 8 to integrate into your breathing technique.)

Boosts successes by 25%.

Equivalent in scope to raising Spiritual Talent from 4 to 5.

I want it.